Dr Tim Curnow

Tim is a lecturer in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia. He is also a member of the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures.

Tim is currently Program Director for the following strands of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours): International Studies, Language Studies and Sociology.

His teaching is primarily in the area of linguistics and applied linguistics, in the Applied Linguistics major at UniSA. He is also very involved in the Bachelor of Applied Language and Intercultural Communication (soon to be renamed the Bachelor of Arts (Languages and Intercultural Communication)).

Besides his teaching, Tim is currently working on languages and language teaching in Australian schools, on aspects of the grammar of the Colombian/Ecuadorian language Awa Pit (Cuaiquer), on the history of the Barbacoan languages of South America, and on some discourse features of Colombian Spanish. He is one of the project team working on a number of projects for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations.

Tim has previously worked in research positions at the Australian National University and La Trobe University (where he held an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship), and has taught linguistics at the Australian National University, La Trobe University, the University of Queensland, Griffith University and Bond University.

• Introductory linguistics, descriptive linguistics, the study of language structure
• Syntax, descriptive syntax, syntactic typology
• Sociolinguistics, the study of language use in society, and in particular language variation over time and space
• The application of statistics to applied linguistics

Australian Linguistic Society

Applied Linguistics Association of Australia

Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Linguistic Society of America

Association for Linguistic Typology

Bachelor of Arts with Honours Australian National University, 1992

Bachelor of Science Australian National University, 1992

Doctor of Philosophy (Linguistics) Australian National University, 1998

• The relationship between syntactic choices and communicative effect, focussing particularly on Spanish
• Language-in-education policy, particularly in indigenous contexts (or 'ethnoeducation')
• The grammar of the indigenous Barbacoan languages of Colombia and Ecuador, especially Awa Pit (Cuaiquer)
• The historical relationships among the Barbacoan languages of South America and between these and neighbouring languages
• Linguistic typology, particularly the areas of logophoricity (especially verbal logophoricity), systems of first/non-first person marking and conjunct/disjunct systems, and the interaction of evidentiality, mirativity and person

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (in press) Participation in language education in Australian schools: What do we know, and what does it mean anyway? In Anthony J. Liddicoat & Angela Scarino (eds), Languages in Australian education: Problems, prospects and future directions. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.

Anthony J. Liddicoat & Timothy Jowan Curnow (in press) The place of languages in the school curriculum: Policy and practice in Australian schools. In Ahmar Mahboob & Caroline Lipovsky (eds), Studies in applied linguistics and language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2009) Communication in introductory linguistics. Australian Journal of Linguistics 29(1):27-43.

Timothy Jowan Curnow & Catherine E. Travis (2008) Locational adverbs in non-spatial settings: The case of ahí in Colombian Spanish conversation. In Timothy Jowan Curnow (ed), Selected papers from the 2007 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

Timothy Jowan Curnow & Anthony J. Liddicoat (2008) Assessment as learning: Engaging students in academic literacy in their first semester. In Andrea Duff, Diana Quinn, Margaret Green, Kate Andre, Tim Ferris & Scott Copeland (eds), Proceedings of the ATN Assessment Conference 2008: Engaging students in assessment. http://www.ojs.unisa.edu.au/index.php/atna/issue/view /ISBN%20978-0-646-504421.

Liddicoat, Anthony J. & Timothy Jowan Curnow (2008) The morphological development of the perfect in Jersey Norman French. Claire Bowern, Bethwyn Evans & Luisa Miceli (eds), Morphology and language history: In honour of Harold Koch. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 299-312.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan & Michelle Kohler (2007) Languages are important, but that's not why I am studying one. Babel 42(2):20-24.

Liddicoat, Anthony J. & Timothy Jowan Curnow (2007) Language-in-education policy in the context of language death: Conflicts in policy and practice in Colombia. In Jeff Siegel, John Lynch & Diana Eades (eds), Language description, history and development: Linguistic indulgence in memory of Terry Crowley. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 419-430.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2004/5) La interrogación y la negación en awa pit. Amérindia 29/30:219-234. (Published in 2006)

Liddicoat, Anthony J. & Timothy Jowan Curnow (2004) Language descriptions. In Alan Davies and Catherine Elder (eds), The handbook of applied linguistics. London: Blackwell. pp. 25-53.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan & Catherine E. Travis (2004) The emphatic es construction of Colombian Spanish. In Christo Moskovsky (ed), Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2003) Verbal logophoricity in African languages. In Peter Collins & Mengistu Amberber (eds), Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2003) Nonvolitionality expressed through evidentials. Studies in Language 27(1):39-59.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2002) Conjunct/disjunct systems in Barbacoan languages. Jeanie Castillo (ed.), Proceedings from the fourth Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, July 6-8, 2001 (Santa Barbara Papers in Linguistics 11). Santa Barbara: UCSB Department of Linguistics. pp. 3-12.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2002) Evidentiality and me: The interaction of evidentials and first person. In Cynthia Allen (ed), Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://linguistics.anu.edu.au/ALS2001/proceedings.html.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2002) Can you be gay and lesbian in Australian English? Australian Journal of Linguistics 22(1):23-33.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2002) Conjunct/disjunct marking in Awa Pit. Linguistics 40(3):611-627.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2002) Types of interaction between evidentials and first person subjects. Anthropological Linguistics 44(2):178-196.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2002) Three types of verbal logophoricity in African languages. Studies in African Linguistics 31(1/2):1-25.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2001) Why 'first/non-first person' is not grammaticalized mirativity. In Keith Allen & John Henderson (eds), Proceedings of ALS2k, the 2000 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au.

Collins, Belinda, Johanna Rendle-Short, Timothy Jowan Curnow & Anthony J. Liddicoat (2001) Not just a thesis: Ph.D. study as a first step towards an academic career. In Alison Bartlett & Gina Mercer (eds), Postgraduate research supervision: Transforming (r)elations (Eruptions: New Thinking Across the Disciplines 11). New York: Peter Lang. pp. 123-132.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2001) What language features can be 'borrowed'? In Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald & R.M.W. Dixon (eds), Areal diffusion and genetic inheritance: Problems in comparative linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 412-436.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (2001) Towards a cross-linguistic typology of copula constructions. In John Henderson (ed), Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/LingWWW/als99/proceedings.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (1999) Comentarios sobre los documentos de Caldas, de De Wavrin y de Sor María de San Antonio sobre la lengua Awa Pit y datos actuales [Commentary on the documents of Caldas, de Wavrin and Sister María de San Antonio about Awa Pit and modern-day data]. In Jon Landaburu (ed.), Documentos sobre lenguas aborígenes de Colombia del archivo de Paul Rivet, vol. 3: Lenguas del sur de Colombia. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes. pp. 313-321.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (1999) Datos de la lengua Awa (I) [Data from Awa Pit — Robert de Wavrin]. In Jon Landaburu (ed.), Documentos sobre lenguas aborígenes de Colombia del archivo de Paul Rivet, vol. 3: Lenguas del sur de Colombia. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes. pp. 295-300.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (1999) Datos de la lengua Awa (II) [Data from Awa Pit — Sor María de San Antonio]. In Jon Landaburu (ed.), Documentos sobre lenguas aborígenes de Colombia del archivo de Paul Rivet, vol. 3: Lenguas del sur de Colombia. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes. pp. 301-307.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (1999) Datos de la lengua Awa (III) [Data from Awa Pit — A. J. Caldas]. In Jon Landaburu (ed.), Documentos sobre lenguas aborígenes de Colombia del archivo de Paul Rivet, vol. 3: Lenguas del sur de Colombia. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes. pp. 309-311.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (1999) Maung verbal agreement revisited: A response to Donohue (1998). Australian Journal of Linguistics 19(2):141-159.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (1998) Why Paez is not a Barbacoan language: The non-existence of 'Moguex' and the use of early sources. International Journal of American Linguistics 64(4):338-351.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan & Anthony J. Liddicoat (1998) The Barbacoan languages of Colombia and Ecuador. Anthropological Linguistics 40(3):484-408.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (1995) The functions of voice in scientific writing in Spanish. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 18(2):33-64.

Curnow, Timothy Jowan (1993) Semantics of Spanish causatives involving hacer. Australian Journal of Linguistics 13(2):165-184.